Confronting the Death Penalty: How Language Influences Jurors in Capital Cases
Author:   Robin Conley
Publisher:   Oxford University Press Inc
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9780199334162


Pages:   256
Publication Date:   10 December 2015
Format:   Hardback
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Author:   Robin Conley
Publisher:   Oxford University Press Inc
Imprint:   Oxford University Press Inc
Dimensions:   Width: 24.30cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 11.50cm
Weight:   0.517kg
ISBN:  

9780199334162


ISBN 10:   0199334161
Pages:   256
Publication Date:   10 December 2015
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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"Table of Contents 1 Introduction: ""That's the hardest thing I've ever had to do"" 2 Doing Death in Texas: Studying jurors in ""the death penalty state"" 3 ""I hope I'm strong enough to follow the law"": Emotion and objectivity in capital jurors' decisions 4 Facing death: Empathy, emotion and embodied actions in jurors' decisions 5 Linguistic distance and the dehumanization of capital defendants 6 Agents of the state: Capital jurors' accountability for their sentencing decisions 7 Conclusions: Linguistic dehumanization and democracy"

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There is no doubt that profound lessons from this book can shed new light on the implementation and management of capital pubishment in America. -- Zhonghua Wu, Journal of Language and Politics


There is no doubt that profound lessons from this book can shed new light on the implementation and management of capital pubishment in America. * Zhonghua Wu, Journal of Language and Politics *


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Robin Conley is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Marshall University.

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